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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Talk About Putting in Some Hours on TeachersPayTeachers!!

Holy smokes! For the past two weeks I've been burning
the midnight (and weekend) oil redoing every product I have for sale on
TeachersPayTeachers. I didn't really know what I was doing when I
started. For example:

1.I had my
items priced WAY too low. I started out selling at $0.25 thinking I'll
sell more this way. Not knowing that there is a $3.00 minimum to
checkout. Therefore 99% of my items are at least $3.00 now.

Sales
went up.

2.I didn't have
any previews in my items. I spent HOURS adding previews to all of my
items in a collage format so customers can see the whole item. I know
some people just take part of their item for the preview, but I like the
collage way so I went with that.

Sales
went up.

3.My cover
pages were tiny. The titles were too small to see from the main
page. Therefore, I changed all of my cover pages by creating them in
PowerPoint and setting the slide to 8" x 8" and saving the slide as a
.jpeg

Sales
went up.

4.I started to
bundle a bunch of my items together and offering them at a discsount compared
to buying each item individually.

So
far sales haven't gone up on these like I thought they would, but I'll give it
time.

5.I was adding
my items to Pinterest directly from my TpT store. This was a
big mistake. The cover pages are too small to stand out on Pinterest so I
now use the cover file I created in PowerPoint as stated in #3.

Slowly
getting some repins and followers on Pinterest

6.I started
adding hyperlinks to my products in my product descriptions. Use this
forumula in your description and just add the url of your product where it says
WEBSITE and what you want it called where it says TITLE. <a
href="http://WEBSITE.com">TITLE</a>

I
can't wait to see how this pays off.

So feel free to learn from my mistakes and do all of these things
above right away. Maybe you haven't done these things and you're already
established on TpT and want to redo your products using the steps above.
I currently have 69 products. My estimate is that over the last two weeks
I've spent 40-50 hours working on fixing everything. Will it be worth
it? I certainly hope so!